Wow. Three weeks since I last posted. I’m not sure if it’s been that long before. There are a couple of posts that I have in mind, including some initial fun impressions of 11.1.0.7, which I installed a couple of weeks ago but, for now. Here’s my current best guess as to which presentations I’ll be attending in the first week of December. There were quite a few clashes in the schedule between different presentations I wanted to see, not least when I’m presenting myself. It looks like a pretty good line-up.
Monday
11:00 - 12:00 Beginners’ Guide to Partitioning - Jonathan Lewis
12:20 - 13:20 What ASM & ZFS Can Do For You - Jason Arneil
14:30 - 15:15 Flashback features in Oracle11g - Carl Dudley
15:40 - 16:25 Flash Recovery Area - Tuomas Pystynen
17:05 - 18:05 The best way… by Thomas Kyte, Database Product Evangelist, Oracle
18:15 - 20:30 UKOUG 2008 Opening Party
Tuesday
09:35 - 10:35 ‘What’s New from Oracle Openworld’ - Andrew Mendelsohn
11:05 - 11:50 Follow up session to ‘What’s New from Oracle Openworld’ - Andrew Cleverly
12:10 - 12:55 Boost your environment with Oracle XMLDB - Marco Gralike
14:05 - 14:50 Practical Data Pump - Patrick Hurley
15:10 - 15:55 Drive Heads Revisited - James Morle
16:15 - 17:00 Oracle and storage IOs, explanations, experience at CERN and SSD tests - Eric Grancher
17.20 - 20.00 FOCUS PUBS
Wednesday
09:25 - 10:10 Implementing DR for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control - Phil Grice
10:35 - 11:20 Proactive Detection of Oracle Performance Events using Adaptive Thresholds - John Beresniewicz
11:45 - 12:30 The Danish Experiment: 11g-Shock Upgrades and Massive Workload Reduction via C.O.B.S. (TM) - Mogens Norgaard
12:45 - 13:30 Backup and Recovery Tuning for VLDBs - Hüsnü Şensoy
14:35 - 15:20 Performance Tuning Basics - Me
15:40 - 16:25 Benchmarking Parallel Query Performance - Steve Shaw
18.15 - 21.00 25th YEAR CELEBRATION PARTY
Thursday
09:25 - 10:10 Cool Stuff with Hot ASHes - Graham Wood
10:35 - 11:20 Further RMAN Optimizations in 11g - Stephan Haisley
11:50 - 12:35 Audit Vault Deployment Lessons - Me
13:00 - 13:45 Stopping the Madness with Root Cause Analysis - Robyn Sands
15:00 - 15:45 CSI Oracle – Investigate Past Performance Problems Using ASH, AWR, ADDM, and Optimizer Statistics - Patty Charlebois
16:20 - 17:05 Variance as a Tool: Measuring for Robust Performance - Robyn Sands
17:30 - 18:15 Optimizing Systems by Eliminating Throwaway - Daniel Fink
Friday
10:00 - 12:00 Execution Plans - Christian Antognini
12:45 - 14:45 Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting: No Magic Is Needed, Systematic Approach Will Do - Tanel Poder
(Crikey - only a matter of weeks away now - I’d better get cracking on those presentations.)